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                   (  10  ) And shall be leil to the lion his own kind Lord, Holy church is cumbered with the best of the Kyth, With languages that live not by Christ.but that shall not From Balcomy to the Bade on the broad sea,         (last. And from Ireland in the forth fliall be a fair fight ; Of barges and billingers, and many broad sail; With 3 llbbertes, and the flower deluce fair upon hight; Then shall a hunter in haste come forth of the south. With many Ratches in row is ruled full right, And fhall go on his foot over water of Forth : And in Fife shall he fight, and the field win ; And fhe cheiftains shall die on either side.

When the man in the moon is most in his might, Then shall Dumbarton turn up that is down, And the mohth of Arran, both at one time, And the Lord with lucken hand his life shall he lose. For covetousness and treason that loses the land.

When the craigs of Tarbet is tumbled in the sea. At the next summit after sorrow for ever, Beid’s book have I seen, Banester’s also, Marvellous Merling, and all accords in one, Marvellous Merling is wasted away. With a wicked woman woe might she be ; For she hath closed in a craig on Cornwel coast.

When the cock in the north hath builded his nest:. Butked his birds, and bowned him to flee Then shall fortune his friend the gater up cast. And right shall have his free entry.

Then rise shall the moon in the north west, In a cloud as dark as the bill of a crow ; Then is loosed a lion, the boldest and the best, That was born in Britain since Arthur’s days. Then shall a dreadful Dragon dress him from his den, To help the lion with his great might; A bull and a bastard fpurs shall spend, To abide with the bear, to reckon his rights. A libbered engenered of native kind,